WPC: Smile and the World Smiles with You

“Smile!” As a kid, how often where you told to smile before your picture was taken? How many grim photos did your parents and relatives had to look at, after the school year picture had been sent home with you? This week’s photo challenge theme deals with smiles.

The featured image shows me wearing a bright big smile. It was taken on Louis Vuitton’s Boheme Run, a vintage car rallye that lead from Budapest via Vienna to Prague. Here we were regrouping on a huge parking lot outside of Vienna, ready to drive in a convoy through the Aeußere Burgtor (the outer city gate) here to Michaelerplatz (St. Michael’s place) here, where the cars were parked for the night.

In his blog post Ben Huberman refers to seeing an Exhibition by japanese artist Takashi Murakamihere, who has incorporated many smiles in to his work. There’s also been a very long collaboration between him and the house of Louis Vuitton. Naturally LV produced bags with and without the typical Murakami smile called Cherry Blossom and I am lucky to have a Pochette Accessoires with smiles 😉

Two years ago did a post on Pantone’s Rose Quartz and Serenity and there I actually showed my Pochette Accessoires and the matching scarf here. The little bag is 15 years old and to this day I’m still in love with it, because it always puts a bright big smile in my face when I look at it.